"We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story."

"The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrati…"

"Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption…"

"All my life I have entirely missed the point; and the turning, as I also have no sense of direction. This l…"

"In a book, all would have gone according to plan.... but life was so fucking untidy - what could you say fo…"

"Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a …"

"he once-marginal myth that the republic came into existence in Shanghai in 1919 as a nationalist state has …"